{"id":22525,"date":"2024-03-17T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/its-strange-jenas-reacts-as-arsenal-star-snubs-england-call-up\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:02:39","slug":"its-strange-jenas-reacts-as-arsenal-star-snubs-england-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/its-strange-jenas-reacts-as-arsenal-star-snubs-england-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s strange\u2019 \u2013 Jenas reacts as Arsenal star snubs England call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder, Jermaine Jenas has described Arsenal defender, Ben White\u2019s decision to snub an England call-up as \u2018strange\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Jenas also insisted that White \u2018has to decide what is best for his career and no one else\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>England manager Gareth Southgate recently named his Three Lions squad for their friendlies against Brazil and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Southgate then revealed that White had asked not to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is strange,\u201d Jenas told Mail Sport in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think not everybody\u2019s patriotic, and I think we have to accept that. I think Ben has his own reasons why he feels it\u2019s best for him to not be selected for England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor all we know, him not being selected with England has such a positive impact on his club career, and he wants to focus on that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everybody\u2019s the same in football. We like to kind of pigeonhole players like, \u201cyou have got to fight for your country\u201d. It might be a footballing reason. It might be like, \u201cwhat is the point in me going if I\u2019m not going to play?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s strange\u2019 \u2013 Jenas reacts as Arsenal star snubs England call-up<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder, Jermaine Jenas has described Arsenal defender, Ben White\u2019s decision to snub an England call-up as \u2018strange\u2019.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,4187,12432,15,160],"tags":[237,2718,12433,180,201],"class_list":["post-22525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-england","category-jenas","category-news","category-sport","tag-arsenal","tag-england","tag-jenas","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}